Critical Voices 3 - Speakers - Details

John Thomson

John Thomson has been Director of Distribution at Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, since 2000. He is also a co-director and founder of Foxy Production, a leading contemporary art gallery in New York. He has been active in media arts on an international level since the 1980s. Before moving to New York in 2000, he researched media art digitization and distribution for the Lux Centre, London. In 1998 he was Coordinator of Pandaemonium Festival, London, and in 1997 he co-curated the Lux's inaugural moving image exhibition program.

He has curated media art programs and exhibitions for the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Tate Britain, London; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Exit Art, New York; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, among other venues. He has lectured in media arts at the London Institute, and the School of Visual Arts, New York.

He has written for Mesh, Melbourne; Art in Culture, Seoul; and has written on media art preservation in Art Between Zero and One: A Manual of Digital Art, Christoph Kehl and Beat Raeber, eds., Basel (upcoming, 2006).